17 - Sevendust - Decay
Sevendust has been one of my favorite bands since high school and their newest effort, "Black Out the Sun" is their best album since they dropped "Alpha" in 2007. The band has had the same core 5 members in every album but two, and they have once again found the way to attack your ears with a metal sound unlike any other. Lajon continues to show that powerful range has a place in metal records with Decay. I read one review that said the song "steamrolled through", which is about as good of a way to describe it as any. The opening riff gets you started and the song never relents.
As far as "Black Out The Sun" goes, it starts with a crushing track called "Faithless" and doesn't give up until the very end. The album took the boys 3 years to write and record, which is an eternity considering they had cranked out 8 albums in 13 years. The craziest part of all that was that all 3 of the stringsmen took parts in writing albums for their own projects in the interim. The guys from 'Dust might be working their way to their 40s, but they've still got the sound that the new generation needs to hear. In the video, the band members are being beaten, tied up and attacked in different ways. Why not, right?
Title: Decay
Artist: Sevendust
Album: Black Out the Sun
Previous #17s
2012: Morning Parade - Headlights
2011: Lonely Island - Jack Sparrow (Ft Michael Bolton)
2010: Slash - Baby Can't Drive (ft Alice Cooper + Nicole Scherzinger)
2009: DevilDriver - Another Night In London
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